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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

SENATOR JONES, Of Florida. who has not
been in his seat nor in his State for nearly
two years, announces his intention of re-
turning to Florida and making fight for re-
election as Senator. During his long stay in
Detroit it has been mooted question
whether he had passed into condition of
natural idiocy or chronic inebriety. What
ever it was, nothing reused him till he heard
there was a movement on foot to elect new
Senator; then, with true Democratic instinct,
he began to brace up and show fight. To a
reporter he said 81 am going down there
in few days, and will succeed myself as
United States Senator. All that the people
of Florida want is half an explanation, and !
have got it." Perhaps the people Of Florida
will be satisfied with half an explanation, but
his case seems to call for whole one, and a
very good one at that.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19
A MODEST MAN.

Prince Bismarck has never been accused of
being modest, self depreciatory man, but it
is seldom that he talks about himself with
such engaging fraukness as he is represented
to have done to De Lesseps. He assured his
distinguished visitor that the prevailing idea
that he wanted war was all mistake What
he really wants is peace; though, as ne re-
marks, casually, if France should attack or
threaten, he would be forced to show the same
zeal for war that he now displays in efforts to
maintain amicable relations Then the ingen
uous Chancellor took Mr. De Lesseps into the
garden, out of the reach Of eavesdroppers,
and told him how popular he had become, and
how embarrassing he found popularity to be-
''lt is, he said, "almost as awkward as an
tipathy. The pavements of Berlin, which
formerly could not tread without the people
I met splitting as I passed by to show their
disgust for me, are now so crowded with
friends when set foot out of doors, that
am reduced to showing myself as little as
possible. The day may come when there will
again be splitting my path. We are all
exposed to this NJ. De Lesseps reports
these remarks, and many more to the same
effect, to Paris newspapers, not forgetting
many friendly and dattering messages to Pres
ident Grevy and other French dignitaries. It
is not probable that this amicable attitude
will at once SO conciliate the fiery and patri-
otto French that Herr Bismarck's popularity
will extend to the streets of Paris, but the
enthusiastic De Lesseps expresses the belief
that it viii serve the purpose of bringing the
two governments into more cordial relations
than have existed for a long time. II the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

The Civil-service Commissioners have been
quietly investigating the records and pay rolls
of the different departments in Washington,
found large number. The violations con-
sist in the appointment and promotion of
clerks in the classified service without exami-
nation. The law provides penalty for it's
violation, and if the Commissioners have evil
dence that such appointments have been made
it will be their duty to bring the responsible
persons to account The civil-service law is
as binding as any other act of Congress, and
The fact that any or all Democrats do not like
the law does not make it safe to violate it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19
TELEpHONING EXTRAORDINARY.
Brussels and Paris in Perfect Commute alto
Possibilities Of the Future.

Brussels and Paris in Perfect Communication
Possibilities OF the Future.
London Daily News.
The telephone is on its way to girdle the globe
following the telegraph-to the term in it's
conventional sense-to which it is so closely al
lied. The final triumph will be when a gentle
man can send a Whisper round the planet into his
ear. Meanwhile, it is something to have
two cities so far apart as Brussels and Paris ia
perfect telephone communication; and this. as
our correspondents in those capitals inform us,
has now been done. Paris and Brussels are not
very much nearer to one another than Paris and
London, yet King and President conversed freely
yesterday from their respective capitals. When
they had done with the wire the Queen of the
Belgians listened to a rehearsal at the Paris
Opera. The music reached the royal ear, we
are told, like an attenuated strainl from music
al box. Her Majesty had much to be thankful
for. Prima donna by telephone is not, as q
rule, SO satisfactory, to judge by the experience
of those who have heard the Paris Opera troupe
from the Palais de rIndustrie or our own eMika-
do company from the rooms of the Royal So
ciety at the annual soirees. But, for the expert
ment of yesterday, the multiplying apparatus
may have been improved. The microphone, we
believe, is an invaluable adjunct to the tele-
phone pure and simple for long-distance opera
tons. Coupled with the monograph in q re-
cent romance, 1t proved of great assistance in
the detection OF crime A gentleman had been
murdered under circumstances that admitted of
the registering of the whole dialogue between
himself and his assassin by the two instruments
combined The assassin escaped, but years af
ter the instruments gave up their secret at the
very moment of his imprudent return 70 the
scene of his crime. The proposal 10 bottle up
blessings of Victor Hugo in the monograph and
carry them round to the Latin nations came to
nothing. 1t is a pity the telephone cannot De
extended to Berlin. A few words between
Prince Bismark at one end and Gen. Boulanger
at the other might tend to relieve Europe of
load of care
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

who had personal interest. like himself, such
as Senator Bailey, who is also represented at
the hospital, and the pseudo-Senator Bran
aman, brother-in-law of Trustee Burrell.
ing Of the Senate committee would whitewash
the board of trustees, no matter what the
evidence was. Neither the members Of
the Civil-service Reform Association, who
made the charges, nor anybody else, ever
dreamed for an instant that this committee
would attempt to make true finding Of the
facts; but what the gentlemen who conducted
the prosecution did intend to do was to pre-
sent a record which would clearly show the
infamous rulings of the committee, and that
their findings were wholly contrary to the
plain drift of the evidence before them. This
will be made manifest to the people of the
State beyond the possibility of question.
The findings of the Senate committee are a
ties which have ever disgraced an official re-
port in this State, and an examination of the
rulings made by that committee in the course
of the investigation, and comparison Of the
charges, the evidence and the findings viii
demonstrate in such fashion That nobody
can misunderstood it. that the only purpose of
the Senate committee was, by dint Of sheer
lying, to whiten the ghastliest political sepul-
chre in Indiana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19
METHODS OF TAXATION.

The New York Legislature is discussing the
subject of taxation and assessment with
view of readjusting taxes and getting the
necessary State revenue with the least fric-
ton. The subject is one of great Importance
in all the States. The methods of taxation
and revenue have undergone considerable
changes in recent years, the tendency being
toward reducing taxation on land and increas
ing it on personal property. In great com
mercial State like New York there are large
fields for taxation that do not exist in other
States, and repeated attempts have been made
to reach these by special taxation. Thus it is
now proposed in New York to lay special
tax on bucket-shops and on every sale Of
stocks by brokers' It is claimed the latter
would bring into the treasury over million
dollars. Still, the principal burden of taxa
ton in New York rests on real estate t.
greater extent than it does in most of the
other commercial and manufacturing States.
The entire expense of the State government
in New York is about SO, 0OO, 900 annually
Of this amount real estate pays over three
fourths. Massachusetts,, Illinois and other
leading States make their personally tax and
special taxes pay about one-half of
their expenses of State government,
thus relieving real estate in that
| proportion. Pennsylvania lays no State tax
at all on real estate and it is claimed this has
| contributed greatly to the growth Of ci1es in
| that State, and to the prosperity Of the
| farmers as well. For that or some other rea-
son Pennsylvania is increasing in population
| faster than New York is, not only relatively,
but positively. A legislative committee in
New York proposes to make an extensive in
quiry as to the schemes of taxation in other
States, for the purpose of ascertaining
whether il is not possible to get along with
raising the entire State revenue from per-
sonal and special taxes. If Pennsylvania
can do this, there would seem to be no reason
why New York could not, though it nj chit
not be practicable in some other States Per
haps the greatest difficulty in the whole sub
ject is the fugitive nature of personality, and
the comparative ease with which it hides and
escapes taxation. Real estate is honest; or,
at least, it is visible and tangible, and can.
not escape taxation. Personal property does,
to notorious and scandalous extent. II
personal property could be compelled to pay
its full and honest share of taxes the taxation
of real estate could be greatly reduced. if not
wholly removed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

THE forthcoming report of the Minister Of
Finance will show that the Dominion of
Canada has now debt Of 5000, 600, 900, with
out any available assets. The rate Of taxa
ton is three times per capita that of the
United States. and the government is bor-
rowing money to pay interest. This is bad
showing, and if it cannot be improved soon,
Canada had better make an assignment to the
United States and let us wind up the bust
ness, pay the debts and take the plant.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19
Endicott's speech to the Press.

EHuICottS SpeeCH 10 inc ITOS0.
My voice is still for war!
And l am Secretary of that which
My voice is still for, and
Shall remain so.
Indefinitely!
Here, in my hand, hold
Ny trusty blade Of steel.
Which, dripping with the blood
Of thousands l have slain,
Is evidence to all
That Endicott means business!
Why should a soldier give that up
Which he hath got by vaior!
BY thunder!
He don't have to. and he WON'T
The President is only an
Ex-sheriff from Buffalo.
While am blue blooded
Son of Plymouth Rock,
And have got enough ancestry
TO start herd-book on!
He is what he is by luckl
am what / am by birth and breeding!
If he doesn like MY style,
Let him resign;
I'll be DANCED if will!
Not this evening,
For l am a mugwump-
A Massachusetts, mugwump-
And Massachusetts, mugwump
Bears the relation to any
Office which he holds
That wad of shoemakers' wax
Does to the seat of pair of pants
Namely, to-wit,
The harder you sit down on it
The tighter it sticks!
That's me, and
My voice is still for war!
Washington Critic
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

sample Of the snobbery and funkeyism that
prevail in Washington now. Never before in
the history of the country was there so much
insolence of office, assumption Of authority,
vulgar display, contemplate, un-American
funkeyism at the national capital as there
is to-day. 1t runs through every department
and permeates every branch Of the service
and all the new officials from the highest to
the lowest They simply do not know how to
behave themselves in Office.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

THERE is loud demand for the punish
ment of ex-Warden Howard. The public
should not be too severe Think how terribly
he has already been punished by his forced
resignation of Office. True, he robbed the con-
victs and swindled the State, but he has suf-
fered a terrible penalty in losing his office.
From a Democratic standpoint anything
more than this would be cruel and unusual
punishment and contrary to the Constitution
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

ALL the risks attending travel do not stay
the movements of the restless multitude.
passenger traffic is not lessened in any per-
ceptible degree. Whether business or pleas
ure calls, the American citizen answers the
demand and goes regardless of possible calam-
ity. Is it that we are reckless people. or has a
fatalstic spirit something to do with the gen.
eral indifference to dangerg
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19
AT THE REyOLyER,s NUZzLE.

A Plucky Engineer Compels Railway SUI
perintendent to Write Ketractiop.
Baraboo tWis) Special.
Vigorous warfare is being waged here between
the railway-train and shop men on one hand,
and Superintendent c. A. Swineford, Assistant
Superintendent r. A. Cowan and Chief Tele-
grapher w. A. Lawson, Of the Madison division
of the Chicago s. Northwestern railway Com
pany on the other.
About three years ago Swineford issued an
order forbidding employees of the company from
either drinking entering saloons. Trainaen
were discharged from the Madison division pre-
sumaoly for either drinking entering saloons.
Their DISCHARGES were at times harshly given.
1t is also said that Swineford is not content with
simply discharging a man, but that he has been
known to follow him and secure his discharge
from other roads where he has obtained employ
ment A case of this kind is reported to have
occurred only short time ago. An engine ar
WAS summarily dismissed by Swineford The
mar Immediately secured employment on the
St. Paul road, when one day he was relieved Of
his job without, apparently, any reason. He ap-
piled to the proper official for an explanation
and it is said was courteously shown letter
written by Swineford in which serious charges
were made against the engineer. 1t was on ac-
count OF this letter that the engineer was again
discharged AS the story goes, the engineer,
with family depending upon him for support,
became desperate and asked if he would be rein
stated If he obtained letter from SwneToru ae az
ibs HAos tuo idttoE Salu III Ills urSC loCLer
Receiving affirmative answer it is said that
he Immediately came to the city, and going to
the railway headquarters confronted Swineford
in his private Office alone.
what do you want here2" demanded the su-
perinterdant in evident anger.
81 came to find out whether or not you made
these charges specifying theml against me-"
II did: what are you going to do about itF
Compel you to write q retraction to every
one OF them" replied the desperate engineer.
taking revolver from his pocket, ''or you'll
never leave this room alive"
Swineford, powerful man himself. looked ct
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

MIND-READER BISHOP having given his
version of his domestic difficulties, and Mrs.
Bishop having told her story, it is no trick at
all for the public to read the minds of the
two and to decide that both are shallow, vul-
gar ard unfit for respectable society. The
sooner they and their affairs are retired into
obgcurity the better for all concerned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

The tramp who counts the ties and sleeps
on the warm side of stone wall has some
advantages over the traveller who goes on an
express train and stops at frst-class hotel.
The ties do not throw him off the track and
crush his life out, nor does the fence take fire
and consume him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

UNDERTAKERs now boast that they are max
ing as much out Of the railroads as the lawyers
are.
DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Is going to
join the grand army of readere- The genial Au-
tocrat will read his own unpublished works.
Mrs. ROSENBERG, Of the Treasury Depart
mant is considered one of the very best counter
felt detectors in the world. Hundreds and
thousands Of dollars have been thrown out By
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

New YORK. March ia new edition of TO-
coo comics of General Logan's book, 1.-THE Great
Conspiracy. was issued touuy Mr.. A. II. Hart.
one of the publishers, said that most OF the edi-
ton is already sold, and that another is to be
put in press at once. A notable fact is that the
State of Maine is making big record IN the
number of books taken
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

A FIRM of architects in Washington have
been awarded, by special commission Of the
Mexican government, the contract for con-
structing monument in the City of Mexico
to commemorate the war in which Mexico
became an independent nation. The monu-
ment is to cost $500, 900. and competition for
the award was open to the world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

WIRES havo been laid in the War Depart.
ment from the entrance doors to the elevator
to announce the approach of the Secretary.
The object is to have the elevatorin readiness
for his highness and to prevent common peo-
pie from intruding on him. This is fair
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

ACCORDING to General Greely's signal-service
reports, the weather has been growing warmer
for the past five days. General Greely's stay in
the arctic regions seems to have rendered his
perceptions more acute than those of the aver
age man. He can scent change of tempera
ture while it is yet very far off
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19
The Lournal.s New Press.

The new perfecting press built for the Journal
by r. Hoe & Co., New York, is now being put
up. For time our press facilities will be
somewhat disturbed, but within week, or ten
days, at the furthest, we hope to be better
equipped than ever for serving the Journal to
its patrons by the latest and most improved ma
chinerv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19
Drunken Jews Rare.

Hebrew Journal.
High license or prohibition is the question OF
the day among the temperance reformers But
we Jews need concern ourselves but little about
the matter. for Jewish drunkard is one Of thn
rarest sights on earth.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

IT is hardly likely tn at any brewer, distiller
or wholesale liquor dealer of the country will re-
spond to the appeal Of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union and don the white ribbon
but being class of men grade higher in in
teigence than saloon keepers, they will recog-
nize the truth and justice OF the words addressed
to them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

A MAN giving his name as J. Brown appeared
in Morristown N j.. two months ago, and en-
gagged in mercantile business in small way
The other day he suddenly ''came to himself"
said he was clergyman from Coventry. R. l.,
where he supposed he had been preaching all
this time, and had no knowledge of how he came
to be in Morristown. His friends were sent for,
and his story found to be true. Rev. Brown is
not the first man who has labored under the i'm
preston that he was preaching the gospel when,
in fact he was doing nothing of the kind
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

PRESIDENT ROBINSON, of Brown University,
is just now the innocent cause Of good deal of
amusement in Providence DR.. Robinson is not
at all in politics. and has not always voted, but
about year ago he took an active part in the
prohibition movement. and declared that in
future he should pay his registry tax and vote.
A few davs ago, when the registry books in
Providence were closed, preparatory to the ap-
preaching election, it was found that President
Robnson's name had been placed on the records
at the last moment, and his registry tax of 81
paid by one Mcguire. Few people knew what
relation Mr.. Mcguire bore the college president
until 1t leaked out that ward Democratic club,
finding that the president of Brown had neglected
to register. elected him an honorary member Of
their organization. and his tax was paid with
batch of other needy or delinquent Democrats.
The joke lies in the fact that the good President
is neither resident of the ward which paid him
this honor, nor is he Democrat but the patri-
otto zeal of the ward club has placed him under
the necessity OF establishing his previous good
chacter and proving an alibi.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

WHETHER the fertilizers manufactured by
Lawton, the absconding New Yorker, were good
for anything else or not they have, at least
produced the prize embezzler of the season
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

THE report that Mr.. Rufus F. Manu. local
agent of the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati & Louis
Vile railway at Hartford City. was short in his
accounts appears to have been entirely un-
founded and malicious There is no reason to
believe that Mr.. Mann's accounts are at all ir-
regular, and from the fact that he is lying eeri-
ously i'll at his home, the starting of the rumor
affecting his integrity seems peculiarly satanic
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

REV. MYRoN w. REED, of Denver, is "men-
toned" as possible successor to Beecher as
pastor of Plymouth Church.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19
THE NDIANApOLIs JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
LoNDON-American Exchange in Europe. 449
Strand.
PARIs-American Exchange in Paris. 35 Boulevard
des Capucines.
NEW YORK-Gedney House and Windsor Hotels
CHICAGO-Palmer House.
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L0UISVILLE-C. 4. bearing northwest corner
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and Southern Hotel.
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House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

Telephone Calls
Business Office. 23s Editorial Rooms -242
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-19

ne 1dOOn MIVeu pfUCI inc Stars among,
And spake aloud with scornful tongue:
Stars! minions flashlights of the sky!
Mean. Intellectual. worthless fry!
Mere drops Of waste ungathered light!
Gilt buttons on the coat of night
Here's another one still funnier
He sets truths in his fro to cook
Till they to falsehoods SWELL
And some go pop with spurious look,
Ard some with u curious SMELL
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-24
A MONTANA MAN.

Confirmation of Mr.. De VOLTS Appoint
ment as Associate Justice-A Source OF
Satisfaction to Montana People.
The following special, which confirms the
news by Associated Press already pub.
lished, was received yesterday:
WASHINGTON, D. C., December 2O.-Hon.
W. A. CLARK: Stephen De Wolf was ap.
pointed Associate Justice to-day.
H. P. GILFRY.
Mr.. Clark has been u~n,iring in his efforts
to secure this appointment, and the result
of his efforts and those Of the prominent
citizens of this Territory, who have exerted
themselves to this end. will be a source Of
qualification to the residents OF the Second
Judicial District. The appointment will be
hailed with satisfaction throughout Mon
tana as a mark OF difference to the desires
of her people that has hitherto been want
ing. It need hardly be said that in this
case the office will be honored by the man
and the result will be that more Territorial
offices in the gift OF the Government will be
filed by citizens OF the Territory.